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The Departed (2006) - Saw it last night and was blown away. I supposed I was predisposed to like it, what with Scorcese, DiCaprio, Nicholson, Anderson, Baldwin, and a huge cast of other very talented actors. Since it's Scorcese, I wasn't entirely sure of what was going on the whole time, but admittedly, that's part of the thrill. I think the very intriguing premise lent itself to that too. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time and mesmerized by the whole thing. I'm still not sure if I'm entirely satisfied by the ending, but it worked well enough. Still, I loved it and I love that feeling of coming out of a theater feeling so satisfied by the experience. At least 9 out of 10.

-Aaron

The Click
I watched this in 3rd block class and deeply enjoyed it. It was definately the funniest Adam Sandler film ever, even better than Little Nicky and Happy Gilmore. The best part of the film was when he let his dog outside, he used his remote controller to fast foward it until he stopped it, making his dog doing his private business and then, went inside the house and start playing around with his own teddy bear. Wow, that film made me blown my mind for a good 45-minutes. Although, my gym teacher stopped the film when the class is over and I head straight to the cafeterria. Definately reccomend for any Adam Sandler fans out there.

Rating: 8/10

Just saw Marie Antoinette in theater and it totally blew me away!! The costumes, the colors, the actors, the setting..... simply gorgeous and so PINK!!! I love pink!!! They only scratched the historical story and background but nevertheless one of the best movies of 2006!! Should definitely get at least an Oscar-nomination!!

Toy Story with Audio Commentary

Deja Vu - Some friends and I went to see this tonight. The first hour was pretty stale, but it started to pick up as it went on. It had an interesting plot, that's for sure. Denzel Washington's performance was astonishing, he's truly a great actor.

I also watched...

A Goofy Movie - This movie will always hold a special place in my heart, as it was the first movie I ever saw in a theatre. I haven't seen it in years, but I'm glad that I purchased the DVD. In all reality, it really is a funny movie. Not like "cute" funny, I mean funny funny. It should be considered an animated classic, IMO.

Fun and Fancy Free - B very good liked it better than Ichabod and Mr. Toad

Ice Age The Meltdown This was not as good as the first. I got bored with this and stopped it in the middle.

An Extremely Goofy Movie - Not near as good as the original, but not too bad. This was my first viewing of this movie and I knew from the beginning that it was just going to be okay. It still has it's funny parts, though.

Last Night I watched:

Home Alone- Watched it in it's entirety on video. It's good up until the showdown with the burgulars.

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring EE I know it's long, but it's a great fantasy film. Started it at around 7:30 and ended it at around 10:50

Disney's Make Mine Music

Schindler's List-makes me cry every time I see it.

The Naked Gun 3 33: The Final Insult on TBS

The last of the Naked Gun Trilogy. Although, the film starts to lose its touch than the first 2, but it starts to get funny when it reaches to the Academy Awards scene. I loved the Jurrasic Park parody where the giant old man steps on a human being and Mother Teresa spoof, where Mother Teresa was dancing at a poor village. I laughed so hard on that part.

It's pretty hilarious for the second time viewing.

Rating: 7/10

Again, for the second time in 5 days: Gone with the wind partly with audio-commentary, but I always have a hard time listening to commentaries throughout a movie. I can only listen to it in bits. I get bored when listening to it for longer than 15 minutes. I fell asleep listening to the TLM commentary track .

RyougaLolakie wrote:I loved the Mother Teresa spoof, where Mother Teresa was dancing at a poor village. I laughed so hard on that part.

Yeah - that was one of the highlights of the film. "I love FOOD! I love FOOD! And I'm really in the mood..." And she takes the crippled kid's crutch away from him, he falls down, and she just throws it in the air. I thought initially that it was an improvement over the 2nd film, overall. But, they're all classics and both sequels are slightly inferior to the original. Though there was also that part at the Bar parodying Thelma and Louise - that was a really funny scene too. My favorite joke is when lonely / broken-up-with-Frank Jane walks out of the bar crying and the song we hear is "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall...," she blubbers out- "they're playing our song!"

Watching Hercules right now. Two words: Vastly underrated movie.


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Forgot to mention that I saw The Santa Clause 2 last week, as it's an annual Christmas viewing and prep for SC3.

I saw Casino Royale (2006) this afternoon. Some of the timing issues in relationship to the rest of the series are kind of lame -- I know some people are viewing this as an entirely different series a la <i>Batman Begins</i> (2002) but I have a problem with that too -- but I got over them after a few minutes. Besides, I haven't seen enough of the Bond movies to call myself an expert of any kind anyways. I was skeptical, but Daniel Craig was great as Bond (but again, I can't compare him to all the others). Of course the 007 movies are all in the same action spy blockbuster vein, and I thought this did a really good job with that. It also contained one of the most disturbing scenes I've ever seen.

This makes two theatrical outings in a row for movies that extensively involve believable use of cell phones to drive the plot! I admit to being somewhat excited about that.

-Aaron

Look at the time, and I am still up. These drugs are working good. Well, I am watching the movie that is in my Top Three Movies of all time, one that I can watch once a week or more often and never get tired of - The Sting with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. This is just one great film and I never get tired of watching it.

Click - An extremely hilarious, yet very touching, film. One of Adam Sandler's best movies, IMO. Everybody told me that it was such a sad movie once it gets to the end, but thankfully it wasn't near as sad as people made it sound. Highly reccomended.

Monster House - I enjoyed it, but honestly, I think it might be too scary for little kids. I laughed a lot though, especially at Chowder. He made the movie!

The 40-Year-Old Virgin - Disgusting, but still a fun movie. This is the type of movie that you have to watch with friends or it isn't near as funny. I watched it with my best friend and I laughed my head off! Fun times.

Prince Ali wrote:Click - An extremely hilarious, yet very touching, film. One of Adam Sandler's best movies, IMO. Everybody told me that it was such a sad movie once it gets to the end, but thankfully it wasn't near as sad as people made it sound. Highly reccomended.

I'd agree with you wholeheartly! Definately one of the best Adam Sandler films yet!

I watched most of this Dolly Parton Christmas movie on Hallmark last night where she plays a dead woman come back to Earth as an Angel destined to help a family get closer together for Christmas.

It was okay, better than most of those made-for-TV, sappy Christmas movies. But of course there were a few problems. Even though the kids were mostly believable, their characters weren't really well defined / in-depth. Dolly Parton sings too professionally in the movie before it's established (at least before I found out, I didn't catch this from the very beginning) that she was a singer - so really the only point of her singing in that scene to no music is for one of the kids to ask her if she was a singer ("were you any good?" - talk about predictable), so of course she has to sing in the movie because that's one of the reasons she was hired in the first place. And of course she's good, because she's Dolly Parton, a living music legend and superstar. In fact, she has a song near the end of the movie that is absolutely astounding. It was so good, I'm going to try looking for it on Napster later (I bet I won't find it).

Then probably the worst thing that happened in the movie - a character, for no discernible reason whatsoever, announces they are moving / leaving. I don't remember it being established anywhere that she was unhappy at her job, yet this would create convenient tension in the plot, which up to this point didn't have any huge problems until this. This is basically the beginning of the ending, and the ending is much too predictable anyway (the super-cliched: you're almost out of time but I'll give you more time only you will either go to Hell or be stuck on Earth forever like this - The Heavenly Kid, 1985 did this very same thing, ending the same way - "it was a test to prove you were unselfish and could think about someone other than yourself").